MB declares Morsi winner of Egyptian vote

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has announced that its candidate Mohamed Morsi has won the country’s run-off presidential election. At a pre-dawn press conference on Monday, the Brotherhood officials declared their victory over ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister Ahmad Shafiq in the election. The officials said that results from 98 percent of the polling stations showed that Morsi won 52 percent of the vote. "Thank God who guided the people of Egypt to this right path, the path of freedom and democracy," Morsi said to the crowd who had gathered in front of his campaign headquarters in his first address after the victory. He promised to "be a president for all Egyptians ... a servant to them" and seek a "civil, democratic, constitutional and modern state." This is while analysts earlier said that the Egyptian military was gearing up to announce Shafiq as the winner of the first presidential vote since the country’s 2011 revolution. According to reports, the junta has made agreements with the United States to complete a planned coup by bringing Shafiq to power, according to Press TV.